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Dionysus and Ariadne Restored on a Pompeii Ceiling

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Jul 26, 2026
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When the upper floor of a house on Pompeii's Via di Nola gave way in the eruption of AD 79, the painted vault of its banquet room came down with it and shattered. Nearly two thousand years later, con…

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